It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! — how consoling in the depths of affliction! “And this, too, shall pass away.”
Abraham Lincoln, September 30, 1859
Words of wisdom for this year of punishment 2020.
My mother always used this expression: “This too shall pass away”.